Category Archives: Utility Mining

As you may know, I am one of the four co-organizers of the first international Workshop on Utility-Driven Mining (UDM2018), which will be held at KDD 2018 in London, England this August. I am quite excited about this workshop, and in … Continue reading →

In this blog post, I will present the upcoming 1st International Workshop on Utility-Driven Mining, which will be held in conjunction with the 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference (KDD 2018), on the 20th August 2018 in London (United Kingdom). This KDD workshop … Continue reading →

CALL FOR CHAPTERS High-Utility Pattern Mining: Theory, Algorithms and Applications Editors: Philippe Fournier-Viger, Chun-Wei Lin, Roger Nkambou, Bay Vo An edited book to be published by Springer in 2018 Introduction This book will provide an introduction to the high utility mining, reviews state-of-the-art … Continue reading →

In this blog post I will give an introduction to the discovery of periodic patterns in data. Mining periodic patterns is an important data mining task as patterns may periodically appear in all kinds of data, and it may be desirable to find them … Continue reading →

In this blog post, I will give an introduction about a popular problem in data mining, which is called “high-utility itemset mining” or more generally utility mining. I will give an overview of this problem, explains why it is interesting, and provide source code of … Continue reading →